Live Performances

FRONT ROW BOSTON

Venture into Boston's iconic music venue Brighton Music Hall and get in the front row for a performance by Portland-based indie band Typhoon. WGBH News reporter Edgar B. Herwick, III interviews the band's leader Kyle Morton.

Saturday at 11pm on WGBH 2

WGBH HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

As we count down to special holidays and the New Year, WGBH celebrates this season of joy with great programming. Hear A Holiday Sing on Drive Time Live. Fraser Performance Studio is decked out for the holidays and a live performance by The Copley Singers.

By Jared Bowen
Consider a vision for peace during the Civil War, having the courage to sponsor art that fits with your vision of legacy, or a bold look at the dystopia that could grow out of violence. Jared talks about some of the fresh takes coming to theater, gallery and film.

By Kim McLarin
Kim McLarin takes in the new production of Porgy and Bess” at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater with the question “Why now?” and finds a surprising answer in the company’s new version of the 75-year-old opera.

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings opera excerpts by Gluck and Handel, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the BSO in instrumental works by Rameau and Bach, live from Tanglewood.Tonight at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical

The Peruvian conductor leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 and Jennifer Higdon's Loco, and violinist Joshua Bell is the soloist in Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.Today at 1pm on 99.5 All Classical

The next concert features Spirituals Re-Imagined, including world premieres by John Harbison and Donal Fox, webcast live from the Spring For Music Festival.Wednesday, May 11 at 8pm on 99.5 All Classical

Charles Dutoit leads the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Roméo et Juliette, with soloists Bernarda Fink, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, and Laurent Naouri to close the BSO season.Saturday, May 7 at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical

The Macedonian pianist continues a celebration of the bicentennial of Liszt's birth as soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 2, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts music by Reger and Ravel.Saturday, April 30 at 7pm on 99.5 All Classical